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• ‟ Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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• ‟ It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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• ‟ Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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• ‟ To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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• ‟ The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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• ‟ A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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• ‟ Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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• ‟ God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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• ‟ Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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• ‟ Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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